CONTENTS. 



I. Urania and the Muse converse 1. Progress of the Mind 42. II. The 

 Four sensorial powers of Irritation, Sensation, Volition, and Asso- 

 ciation 55. Some finer senses given to Brutes 93. And Armour 108. 

 Finer Organ of Touch given to Man 121. Whence clear ideas of 

 Form 125. Vision is the Language of the Touch 131. Magic 

 Lantern 139- Surprise, Novelty, Curiosity 145. Passions, 

 Vices 149. Philanthropy 159. Shrine of Virtue 1 60. III. Ideal 

 Beauty from the Female Bosom 163. Eros the God of Sentimental 

 Love 177. Young Dione idolized by Eros 186. Third chain of 

 Society 206. IV. Ideal Beauty from curved Lines 207. Taste 

 for the Beautiful 222. Taste for the Sublime 223. For poetic 

 Melancholy 231. For Tragedy 241. For artless Nature 247. The 

 Genius of Taste 259- V. The Senses easily form and repeat 

 ideas 269. Imitation from clear ideas 279- The Senses imitate 

 each other 293. In dancing 295. In drawing naked Nymphs 279. 

 In Architecture, as at St. Peter's at Rome 303. Mimickry 319. 

 VI. Natural Language from imitation 335. Language of Quails. 

 Cocks. Lions. Boxers 343. Pantomime Action 357- Verbal Lan- 

 guage from Imitation and Association 363. Symbols of ideas 371. 

 Gigantic form of Time 385. Wings of Hermes 391. VII. Recol- 

 lection from clear ideas 395. Reason and Volition 401. Arts of 

 the Wasp, Bee, Spider, Wren, Silk-Worm 411. Volition concerned 

 about Means or Causes 435. Man distinguished by Language, by 

 using Tools, labouring for Money, praying to the Deity 438. The 

 Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil 445. VIII. Emotions from 

 Imitation 461. The Seraph; Sympathy 467. Christian Morality 

 the great bond of Society 483 496. 



